jardiniere
Americannoun
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an ornamental receptacle or stand for holding plants, flowers, etc.
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various vegetables diced and boiled or glazed, used for garnishing meat or poultry.
noun
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an ornamental pot or trough for plants
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a garnish of fresh vegetables, cooked, diced, and served around a dish of meat
Etymology
Origin of jardiniere
1835–45; < French, feminine of jardinier gardener, equivalent to Old French jardin garden + -ier -ier 2
Example Sentences
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Roughly 9 percent of the time, a J was incorrectly swapped out for another letter, as when jardiniere was incorrectly spelled as gardiniere.
From Slate • May 28, 2014
For two more rounds and part of a third, they fought without faltering through such helter-spellers as recalesce, baccivorous and jardiniere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let me have some Man O'War en casserole" "I'll take Zev jardiniere" "Give me a steak a la Earl Sande" "Waiter!
From Time Magazine Archive
“Oh nonsense,” Greta Betchel, a petite woman who fancied herself both a nineteenth-century graveyard poet and the world’s last jardiniere supreme a la Louis XIV, replied.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
We enter'd—and scarcely had Bob, with an air, For a grappe a la jardiniere call'd to the waiters, When, oh!
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
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